Rivian R1T review - 0-60mph, 1/4-mile & off-road tested!

this is the riviant r1t and it's a little bit like a Tesla cyber truck only you can actually buy it do you know what that felt a little bit like being born again and I don't mean in the religious way anyway in this video I'm going to tell you all about this truck I'm going to talk you around the exterior I'm going to show you the interior I'm going to try out some of its technology I'm going to take it for a drive off-road then of course I'm going to launch it see how quick it is from North to 60 miles an hour and over the standing quarter mile anyway I'm at Watson and you're watching car wow and if you haven't done so already make sure you subscribe to this Channel and hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload buying a new car car wow and my team will help you find your next car at a fair price car wow your One-Stop car buying comparison site let's start this video by talking about the design of the rivian r1t so the outline is very much like a normal pickup but it's got some Modern elements like this huge light bar across the back being an electric vehicle obviously doesn't have exhaust pipes these design bits here do look a bit exhausting but I don't know what had done that but there we go so moving to other side wheel sizes actually start at 21 inches these are the optional 20 inches because they're the off-road wheels that's why we've got the off-road knobbly tires there moving down the sides every pick up here they look flush door handles and I'll just open them with this rather cool key look it's a carabiner you can put it on your belt buckle all right you see anyhow let me just open the door look flush door handles lovely down the side we've got leaving a logo there just a normal pickup from the side really isn't it apart from the other cool brakes look at that it's very sporty looking yellow brake calipers which go with this cool yellow paint here at the front though it's looking really modern again isn't look at that that huge light bar I love the design at the front of this car and the way they have the main headlight elements here it's so good luck in the front this one has the upgraded off-road pack then you get like some extra tough ruggedness and look these toe hooks there as well this is the Revenge logo there and you actually see it used in lots of different places throughout the truck for instance they're on the lights and on the pillar between the front and rear doors another thing I want to show you is this look when you lock the truck hear that so funny it tweets like a bird now the starting price of this car sorry car truck is 67 500 which works out to about 51 000 British pounds this is a launch edition so it has some extra bits and pieces on it as standard and it starts from 73 000 now if you're thinking about buying a new pickup truck or anything for that matter you obviously need to sell your old car first and if you want to do that make sure you get a fair price for it click on the pop-out button there or follow the link in the description below because you can sell your car through car wow you just upload some photos give a brief description and our trusted dealers will bid on your car and you can choose which dealer you sell it to and they'll come to your house take it away and put the money straight into your account now if you want to do that at a later date you just simply Google help me car wow well I just wanna do it again because I like it area I've got to say I love the interior design of this rivian it doesn't feel like a truck at all it feels like an expensive car now it may look like leather this this then it feels like it but it's not it's vegan friendly as is the steering wheel although it doesn't feel like leather so much which is a bit of a shame roof lining is made out of recycled materials but it doesn't feel in any way recycled and then this open pool wood that you can get it reminds me of another EV you know to find out what that Eevee is and to see an amazing deal you can actually get on it click on the pop-up band right there it'll follow the link in the description below big shout out to the seats as well these seats look cool they're really comfy they feel expensive and obviously you've got full electrical adjustment and it is easy to get an Ideal Driving position in this car though to set the steering wheel you'd have to go into the screen and then adjust the steering wheel using these buttons here like so come on there we go yeah just like in a Tesla so they try to reduce the amount of clutter and buttons so a lot of things are just controlled through here and then the buttons on the steering wheel once you set the car up it's not such a problem but it is a bit of a fast when you first get into the car speaking of the infotainment system really nice big digital display you go through the different menus like that and the climate control you actually control the air vents by sliding the angles around like that on the screen touch sensitive buttons rather than physical buttons so they're a bit harder to press when you're driving but it's not too much of a faff you've got good mapping there like that and obviously you can plug in your destination it'll work out your charging points as well so you always get to your destination with some charge and you can just switch to different menus like I like it one of the good things about this compared to say Tesla Model 3 is that you also have a digital driver's display so you do see your speed in front of you you can't really change what you see on there but it doesn't matter there's enough information for all that you really need another thing that I like about this car is the storage so underneath here look you have a big storage bin and then here you have a wireless charging pad for your mobile phone so even if you've got a big silly semi tablet phone like me there's plenty of space for it and you can even put that in there if you want to here you have some big cup holders there is no glove box though but you'd have a big storage area there where you can put a bag and the door bins look we've got a big bottle in the door bins there I like the way that they're like folder style like on the back of an airplane seat they feel expensive as do the door handles which are seem like this solid metal I don't know if they are you've also got aluminum pedals the floor mats even though the rubber eyes are like hard wearing they feel expensive as well there's a Riven logo I told you there's loads of Rivier logos in fact look here on the charge pipe it's a little living logos as well it's all very nice all very well thought out I mean even this lucky got a nice big mirror there with two diffuser lights so you can look at yourself feel very smug about the fact you're driving a pickup truck which is environmentally friendly and no animals were killed in the production of the Interior either here in the back seats the quality theme continues and there's plenty of knee room Headroom is good as well people over six foot will be fine back here I've also got this lovely big glass roof which lets light in and because you've got a flat floor because obviously all the batteries underneath the floor there's plenty of foot space so if you need to carry through it once there's room for everybody's feet now what sometimes happens in electric cars is because loads batteries underneath the seats the seats seem quite low but not in this so it's nice and comfortable also look there you've got yeah ice of example points for within baby seats you've also got some Posh look at this with the buckles the the folds on the back of the seats you've got a coat hook there you've got usbc's there you've got your climate control there with more usbcs there and you probably can't see it but there is another three pin socket there as well now check this out all right look underneath here we have some extra storage and a subwoofer for the stereo system and oh that's a bit annoying having to pull down the armrest like that and the fact that you've got exposed cup holders so you do put your wrists in them but you have some extra storage there and look at this through this flap is access to the place from which I was born at the beginning of the video so one of the really unique features on this truck is what they call the gear tunnel I mean look at that I'll just run around and show you it is really large see hello you're on me it's using it and the tunnel bigger pickup you've got an absolutely massive low bed so the total capacity is 1925 liters and look underneath here you have some more leakage we do have a full-size spare but this actual well is about 200 liters and you can fill it full of eyes to put like drinks in there and there's a drain plug in there so when it all melts you can just let it all out obviously it's a long bed as well look at this and it can take quite some weight so the payload what you can carry in there 800 kilos it's not the biggest compared to internal combustion engine trucks but it's still pretty blooming good so is the towing capacity this thing can tow 5000 kilos now I want to show you something else just in here there's a little insert there where you can put a special cable so you can like attach it to whatever you're carrying in the back such as a bike a motorbike a quad or something and it's linked to the car's security system so it has something similar to Tesla like the Sentry system which has cameras which records if someone like it's near to the vehicle to fiddle with it and with the gear God wrapped through your motorbike whatever someone tries to pull on it it senses the the pressure and it'll actually alert you on your mobile phone so you can see what's going on all very clever need more storage well not a problem look at this underneath the Bonnet you have a front Boot and with 330 liters of space look keep all your cables and stuff under there and look here's the the special gear guard cable that I was talking about that you plug in at the back to secure whatever vehicle or bike you're carrying Jamie can't fit a bike in here really maybe a small bike now just shut it you press this because it's all electrically operated come on that's kind of cool though I do miss the enjoyment of just slamming a bonnet and that brings up to five or nine things about this truck for a high-tech vehicle there is no Android auto for the infotainment system which is a bit annoying now before all you Apple fan boys there's no apple carplay either so many American pickups allow you to open this back window which is pretty nice but on this one no let's be in let's be in done is it really cold why this has speakers built into the headrest they look really nice down there as well sounds impressive actually they're not speakers they're just a design feature but anyone you take in this car is like oh wow cool look at this fixing the address and then you're gonna have to explain to them that no see the way this cladding extends like that well because the door is quite narrow at the bottom the way you get out like you end up like dragging the back of your leg across this piece of plastic and if you're wearing shorts you could end it with a bit of chafing on your calves there's no grab handles here on the windscreen pillar to help you hike yourself into the car and because there's no running boards to step on either you end up having to just like like Mountaineer into the vehicle oh you see it's not all negative though here's five good things about this car I want to change the location of your roof bars where they are easily removable adjustable and you can even Mount them this is going to be brilliant gainly on here look slidy slidy locky locky not sure about this pose though there's a flashlight in the driver's door look at that oh I can't wait extends feels really expensive as well it's metal and it's always going to be charged because it charges off the car's battery because the car's got all the kilowatt hours this will never be without power want to go off-road well you're going to have to ensure that your tires are at the right settings aren't you so in here you have a special high pressure hose and you simply plug this into the hand of these watches they interrupt you when you do a piece of camera you plug that into there and then you can set the pressure that you want plug that into your tires and you can just set it for with your off-roading or on-roading ow it's all going wrong and everything's beeping now here's a feature I absolutely love look at this and made here is a removable Bluetooth speaker which Riven calls the camp speaker because you can be music from the car stereo from your phone and play it outside the car while you're camping you can get a bunch of accessories for this riviere including a tent don't have to have the slightly aggressive German Shepherd my particular favorite is this it's called the camp kitchen if I press this button I can go into the gear tunnel and my friend Joey here will show you exactly what you can have in here God so you pull this and you've effectively got a very Posh camping kitchen which runs off the car's battery system in here we have an induction hob here is the sink area and you've got a four gallon tank here so look there's a sink and there's your TAP now in here I've got the drawers with the pans we've also got bowls and cups and then utensils it's all very cool you're right boy you're right [Music] this ravion has four electric motors one controlling each wheel combined they put out 800 horsepower 900 newton meters of torque you have a 135 kilowatt hour battery pack which will give you a range of 314 miles there will be a bigger battery coming out later on which will give you a range of around 400 miles now to charge it you just press this button like that and that opens up really cool now if you charge it on a fast DC charger you can charge at a rate of around 200 kilowatts that means you can charge from zero to about 140 miles in just 20 minutes now obviously with such a big battery pack on board this thing is quite heavy it weighs over 3 100 kilos how does that affect the braking let's find out I'm going to see how quick it can stop from 100 miles an hour and from 60 miles an hour let's do it yeah you can get up to 60 miles an hour pretty quickly won that in a bit because I'm gonna be launching it let's get to 100 miles an hour here we go fully imagine stop now I've got full region on four breaking how long did it take to stop so this car stopped from 100 miles an hour in 117 meters which is quite a lot and from 60 in 43 meters and before you say oh wait but you're going quicker than 100 miles an hour this device only registers once I click over 100 and likewise with 60. so the distance from 60 miles an hour 43 I got on the road in a Range Rover hybrid 35 meters however obviously the Range Rover I've never said this before it's quite a bit lighter than this and it was on street tires I think the braking performance has been affected once again by the off-road tires I've got to try on street tires haven't I really but it's not terrible considering the weight I know I'm gonna drive it over selection of bumps and ruts to check out the chassis articulation so we've got fully independent suspension obviously air suspension hence it was able to increase its ride height and we'll see what it's like driving over these bits this is easy of a bush against the side of the car I mean that's not that extreme this car could have done more than that probably looked about as spectacular as it felt that was just too easy what I'm going to know is move the suspension into softer oh yeah notice that I want to press that rally button in fact I want to press the drift button which gives you a sporty throttle response and handling but it also disengages the stability control so you can slide it about on the dirt but I'm not really supposed to do that today Okay so we've got some Roots here once again this is just going to warp there's no problem at all and constant traction because you've got a motor controlling each wheel there's no messing around with differentials you'd have to Fan your back with stability control trying to like make up for the fact that you're losing traction from one wheel and prevent a wheel spinning away the motor will control each wheel as it needs to when you think about it like electric power is just so good for off-roading especially as well there's no gearbox and you can control everything using your right foot I have not touched the brakes at all you just got total control over the vehicle it really does make a lot of sense the only downside I guess is the way weight because the lighter vehicle is generally it does help you with off-roading it feels very stiff actually the chassis which is also a good thing you don't need like bending and flexing much you do get a good view out but it's easy to judge where the front of the car is also do you know what to prevent me like scratching this paintwork which I do like by the way aren't any more bushes I'm just going to go for the surround View Camera there and I can see where my wheels are it's handy now we're starting to go downhill a little bit here and this is where the one pedal drive really comes into its own and as I'm going down the hill I'm increasing in smugness because obviously I'm recharging the battery this is like a roller coaster here we go and yeah it's taking me down slowly that was really steady down there there is no Hill to take control but then you don't need it it's just the regen doing it oh this is checking out the traction going up here and I can control it just perfectly on the accelerator pedal if anything is though I know that if I floor it I could literally get air over here because the acceleration on this thing is nuts I'm gonna find out more about that a bit later in this video when I launch it because yes I launch absolutely everything one thing I've noticed is that I haven't felt the wheel slip at all I have got knobbly tires on this but that's another thing about electric vehicles they're so good at just managing the power so that they're always maintaining traction so this obstacle here will just test the approach angle the departure angle and the break over angle and if you like numbers the right jungle on this car is 34 degrees the project angle is 29 degrees and the breakover 26 degrees and I'm going to test the approach now yeah it's fine you can go up steeper than that and the breakover obviously with pickups they can be a little bit long so they are affected a little bit in terms of the breakover but a 26 break okay but it's actually fairly decent right that's pretty much the off-road course dealt with wasn't exactly hardcore like to try this in something a little bit tougher but sections were a little bit rutted and it just dealt with a piece of cake finally then I'm going to launch the rivian so it's supposed to do not 60 in three seconds flat but will it I'm going to find out I've got my specialist timing gear up here and seeing as I'm on a Runway I'm going to keep on going for the quarter mile anyway all I'm going to do is just floor the throttle see what happens three two one go oh you could hear the tires scrabbling away you've got a 16 3.87 I am on off-road tires so street tires would be quicker let's keep going for the quarter mile what we got 12.51 okay so I think in the interest of fairness and science I need to do a run in the opposite direction and that has nothing to do with the fact that that was a lot of fun and I just want to do it again right promise this time I'm going to launch but I'm not just going to floor the accelerator I'm going to hold it on the brake explore the accelerator and then release the brake because then you have a sort of launch control even though it doesn't actually say launch control anywhere on the dash but let's see what happens this time say floor the accelerator I'm gonna release the brake now here we go 3.66 so it was slightly quicker let's keep on going Cuomo 12.14 you know that's similar speed to an Audi RS5 you know and this is a lot heavier than an Audi RS5 like normal Road speeds when you put your foot down it just takes off what you do notice is that at higher speeds the power starts to tail off but you're not really going to be experiencing that on the road unless you're in Germany and on the Autobahn it's a quick truck now one of the reasons I might be a little bit off that note 60 time that region claim is that they use foot rollout when they're measuring the note 60 time whereas I don't I just do it straight from a standstill because that just seems the proper way to date really and I Tesla did the same thing with the foot roll out better numbers I guess you know the Americans they're good at marketing aren't they [Music] so then what's my final verdict on the rivion r1t should you avoid it should you consider it should you shortlist it or should you just go right ahead and buy it well I think you should just go right ahead and buy the review and I think it is a really luxurious super cool very fast electric truck I hope you'll enjoyed the video if you did give it a like if you didn't give it a dislike let me know some other videos you'd like to see in the comments below click on those windows for some more videos on that box there to get a car wow for help selling your car

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Length: 19min 17sec (1157 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 05 2022